About Me

A transplant to New Orleans, I had to get used to the high humidity, heat and hurricanes after living in the San Francisco Bay Area for almost a decade. I'm a food lover and enjoy sharing my finds with my friends.

Friday, August 3, 2012

Chick-filet-a-gay

Every single person who deliberately ate at Chick-fil-a on Wednesday
and claimed they did so to protect Freedom of Speech or Freedom of
Religion is operating under a misconception.

Mr. Cathy and the
entire Chick-fil-a family is allowed, under the US Constitution, to have
beliefs which differ from mine and I will defend their right to express
them and I will fight any attempt to silence them.

But this isn’t about Christianity, the 1st Amendment or two crucial pickles. It is about money from patrons being spent to fight the equal treatment of other patrons.

The
990's filed with the IRS by WinShape are publicly available and show
that money from Chick-fil-a is going to fund more than just summer camps
to strengthen traditional marriage. It has given more than $5 million to
groups like the Family Research Council and the American Family
Association that spread lies and hate, that teach scientifically
repudiated “ex-gay” therapy and that have worked to put into law death
sentences for homosexuals. If there were any doubt about where your
money is going, Herman Cain went on Fox News today to say that $30 million dollars from Wednesday’s Chick-fil-a Appreciation day is going to fund anti-LGBT groups.

The
profit from that meal you just enjoyed is going to oppose my receiving
equal treatment under the law. You and I both know there is not a
single, credible, non-religious reason to deny equal rights to LGBT
people. Instead of working to end injustice, however, you've just funded
organizations that are working to deny other people rights that you
possess.

LGBT activists aren’t trying to dissolve your marriage or
criminalize your consensual sexual behavior. We’re not trying to make
anyone a second class citizen or place undue taxes on anyone else’s
relationships. But that is exactly what the organizations funded by WinShape are trying to do. Our rights aren’t special; they are the exact same ones
you enjoy because you happen to have been born a heterosexual.

Please
try to put yourself in our place. If someone you cared about came to
you and told you that someone hurt them, would you respond by going out
and buying lunch for the aggressor?

I’m not asking you to go on a hunger strike in solidarity of the LGBT community or even to support marriage equality.

All I want is for you to be mindful that the money you spent to buy that meal is being used to harm people you know and love.

Is it really worth that?

How about you donate the amount of that sandwich, waffle fries and drink to an LGBT equality organization like Forum For Equality? It is easy to donate, just click here!